Members of Florida’s lower chamber are considering several bills that some might call “House” keeping measures. Regan McCarthy has more….
The Florida House convened for a short session Tuesday. After Representative Gary Aubuchon, a Republican from Cape Coral, outlined procedures and deadlines for topics like Redistricting the House heard several bills and rolled them into third reading. But each of the bills were followed with few questions and little debate. One of the bills read was authored by Representative Jose Diaz. The Miami Republican says lawmakers are targeting bills that are cluttering the state’s statute.
“Last year we were tasked with finding duplicative superfluous and obsolete parts of our statute, this is something that’s obsolete.”
Diaz’s bill repeals a grant program that hasn’t been funded since 2001. Similarly Representative Lake Ray, a Republican from Jacksonville brought forward a bill that would repeal an outdated state law.
“This bill is a bill to repeal an old law that applies to bonfires. It measures 10 rods in this original law and what this does is repeals that because nobody knows what a rod is. I have an old surveyors chain here if anyone wants to figure that out. It’s one quarter of that chain.”
Ray says bonfires are regulated now by local governments. He estimates the rule his proposal would repeal dates back to pre-1900.